About

Shelby Sleevi teaches core literature and writing courses in the English Department at Loyola. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, modernism, and the relationship between narrative form and literary interpretation.

Degrees

• BA from Wheeling Jesuit University
• MA from Georgetown University
• PhD from Loyola University Chicago

Research Interests

• Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction
• Modernism
• Narrative Theory

Selected Publications

• “Narrating the Everyday: Iterative Narration in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives and Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.” Feminist Modernist Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (“Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic” Special Issue), March 2023, pp. 52-56.